"Third uncle, it's not good!" Liu Tong suddenly shouted.

Yan Rou was chatting with Liu Tong peacefully, when she was suddenly startled by Liu Tong and glared at Liu Tong with a reproachful look.

"What an adult, I'm still shocked!"

"Third uncle, Ma Chao and Zhang Yan besieging the Huns is a good layout, but with General Zhang Yan's fiery temper and Ma Chao's temperament, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get along harmoniously, and maybe some moths will come up and cause your plan to go down the drain!"

When Yan Rou heard this, her face suddenly darkened, "General Zhang should be able to focus on the overall situation, but that Tuoba Liwei and Dou Bin are on the side, I'm afraid it's going to be a bad thing!" Great river, we immediately set out and marched westward, hurrying to catch up. ”

"But Xiahoulan hasn't come back yet."

"Don't wait for him, the three thousand cavalry around me are enough, catch up with Yin Li and Liang Mao."

The two of them ordered to assemble after saying that, which made Xun Zhen confused, why did this champion Uncle Hou leave suddenly every time? I didn't want to ask too much, so I had to follow the send-off.

Zishi to the west, all the way fast, out of the state after the grassland and Gobi, all the way flat, Liu Tong with his own two hundred guards forward to open the road, the sky is high and the clouds are light, fast horses galloping, very comfortable.

The scouts followed the trail all the way, inquired about the herdsmen all the way, and followed the route of Yin Li Liangmao's march.

The route gradually turned north, and Liu informed him that the Huchuquan was going to run deep into the northwest grassland. Everyone caught up with Yan Zhi's logistics troops on the third day, and Yan Zhi has been lagging behind Yin Li and Liang Mao's army, which means that they are about to catch up with Yin Li and Liang Mao.

Passing through a river valley, the dry riverbed and banks were in shambles, littered with the corpses of war horses and broken ordnance, the corpses of the soldiers killed in battle were strewn and bloodstained, and the arrival of the procession startled flocks of vultures and crows, hovering in the air, as if the gang was going to rob them of their food, chirping in protest.

Enduring the stench, Liu Tong saw that these dead people were dressed in different clothes, there were different colors of the Han army, some of the Huns, some of whom Liu Tong did not know, Yan Rou pointed to different costumes and told Liu Tong that this was Tuoba Xianbei, this was Wuhuan, and this was the Qiang ......

"Third uncle, why are there still Qianghu people participating in the war?"

"Ma Chao is very prestigious in Xiqiang, and there are many Qiang warriors under him, and this time he should have brought Qiang warriors. This battle happened a day or two ago, so let's hurry up and catch up. ”

Yan Rou commanded the troops to continue to advance, and Yan Zhi's logistics troops continued to follow.

Half a day's journey, from the north there are Liangzhou troops coming, the first to come over is to escort some Xiongnu women, children and men, and then one after another troops drove a large number of cattle, sheep and horses to the west of Liang.

These troops saw Yan Rou's troops and continued to move forward without greeting them. Liu Tong saw that Yan Rou frowned, and his heart was not happy, this Xiliang army still did not change, and it was no better than Dong Zhuo! The war is not over yet, and they are busy plundering people and goods.

Liu Tong saw that Yan Rou's pace of progress was getting faster and faster, and he knew that Yan Rou was very disappointed in the approach of the Xiliang army, and he was even more worried that their approach would affect the overall situation.

Liu Tong didn't have the heart to know these bad things, and followed Yan Rou for a while.

When you see people and horses from a distance, the first thing that catches your eye is a slowly rising broad slope of the grassland, lined up with people and horses between the sky and the green space, which looks brightly colored.

On the right in the middle is the neat national army, on the left is the mixed Han and Qiang Xiliang army, and on the right is the Xianbei cavalry. The back of the team was full of people moving wood to the front of the formation, and Liu Tong noticed that the groves behind the Xianbei cavalry were about to be cut down.

Yan Rou's face was not good, Liu Tong didn't dare to speak, so he followed. Judging from this layout, the Huns obviously occupy the advantage of terrain, how could Zhang Yan, Ma Chao, Yin Li, Liang Mao and others choose such a terrain?

The cavalry charged, from top to bottom, unstoppable, and without a battle, this side lost a few points. The key is the encirclement that Yan Rou envisioned before, how can a confrontation be established now? And it's on such a terrain.

Walking to the front of the formation, I saw that the Han army was driving wooden stakes in front of the formation, uneven, although the interval looked dense from the side.

Yan Rou saw that the wooden stake's face looked a little better. Liu informed that this was Zhang Yan and they didn't plan to attack, and they started to defend.

"General!" Yin Li first saw a humane road in the formation spread out to this side, and when Yan Rou's war horse appeared, he turned over and dismounted, rushed over to Yan Rou, took the reins of the horse with one hand, and helped Yan Rou who dismounted.

Other generals also dismounted to salute.

"Why didn't you block the retreat from the north?" Yan Rou ignored everyone's greetings, and asked sharply with the horsewhip pointing straight to the north.

"General, that Ma Chao rashly engaged in the battle, kept driving away, and simply ignored the general's strategy, and the troops of the Xiongnu left and right Xianwang responded to Huchuquan and quickly retreated. We didn't have time to detour to the north, and we were worried that Ma Chao would be surrounded by the two forces of Huchuquan and the Huns, so we had to reluctantly join the battle in advance. ”

A black-faced general in his forties with a beard said that Liu Tong thought to himself that this should be Zhang Yan.

"How's the battle going?"

As soon as the Huns retreated, he led his troops to plunder the women, cattle, sheep and horses left behind by the Huns, especially those Qiang. The Huns were able to break away from their western front. Although our troops suffered small losses, they were no longer able to form an encirclement. When the Huns saw Yin Li and Liang Mao coming, they ran faster, and our army pursued them all the way, and when they arrived here, they were ready to rely on the terrain to block us. ”

"You should be glad they didn't take advantage of your foothold to storm your formation." Yan Rou pointed to the gentle slope and said.

Zhang Yan's face turned red.

"Whose idea was this stake?"

"It's the idea of Tuobaliva." Zhang Yan saw that Yan Rou finally showed a satisfied look, and said cautiously.

"General Tuoba is really resourceful." Yan Rou nodded to a Xianbei general in his thirties.

Liu Tong looked at this tall man in his thirties, and said in his heart, this is Tuoba Liwei! This is the birthday star of the western Xianbei! Liu Tong didn't know much about him, but he was a little impressed, it was not easy to live to fifty or sixty in this era, but this thing lived to be one hundred and four years old!

This guy is almost fifty years old before he takes over the position of the head leader of his father's Suo, and he should be a powerful character!

However, what Liu Tong didn't know was that in history, this Tuoba Liwei was the ancestor of the Northern Wei Emperor during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At the beginning of his succession, the western Xianbei civil strife to which the Tuoba Department belonged, attacked each other, and the people were scattered, so Tuoba Liwei took refuge in Dou Bin, the chief of the "Wulu Hui Department", Dou Bin appreciated the weakness, and wanted to divide half of the land to the Liwei, but the force did not accept, so Dou Bin married his daughter to the force. Liwei also asked to lead the department to live in Changchuan, more than ten years later, because of the good governance, the old tribes came to attach. In 248, after Dou Bin's death, his son conspired to make a rebellion, Tuoba Liwei killed him, annexed his subordinates, and all the chieftains and leaders obeyed Liwei, and the history records that Liwei's forces at that time "controlled more than 200,000 horses". In 258, he moved south to Shengle and summoned the chiefs of all the tribes, and they were not afraid to obey from far and near.

"General Xie praises!" Tuoba Li clenched his fists slightly and said, neither humble nor arrogant, not complacent, and his expression was free.

"Great General," Tuoba Liwei continued, "the Huns in the previous war abandoned a lot of their troops, cattle and sheep, and there were still a large number of herdsmen, cattle, sheep and horses behind them, as long as we do a good job of defense and prevent them from taking advantage of the terrain to succeed, they will inevitably panic after a long time." One is that we will have reinforcements to outflank them, and the other is that we are worried that there will not be enough food. But they did not dare to flee north, unless they were concerned about the drag and abandoned the herders and livestock on which they depended. ”

"General Tuoba is reasonable, you might as well dig trenches and traps in front of the battle, why don't the Xiliang army arrange wooden stakes?"

"They are busy snatching the spoils of war, how can they bother to do this, not to mention that Ma Chao is not willing to defend at all." Ryomao also said.

Yan Rou was silent in a low voice, carefully examining her surroundings.

"General, wooden stakes and traps are arranged in front of the battle, if the Huns suddenly escape, it is not good for us to chase them directly and take a detour, don't we give them a chance to breathe?" Liu Tong pointed to the river not far to the west and a huge hill to the east. Liu Tong always called Yan Rou by his position in front of people.

Yan Rou glanced at Liu Tong and was noncommittal. said to Zhang Yan: "Order the generals of all ministries to come to discuss matters!" ”

Liu Tong wondered in his heart, did I say something wrong?